Word: owed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair are "public sinners," and if they live together in "pseudo-marriage," they are guilty of concubinage and liable to excommunication. Living together in a rented house in West Los Angeles, Sophia and her mate put their love before their religion. Said Actress Loren: "Everything I am today, I owe to Carlo ... the only man I have ever loved and therefore the only man I could ever marry." Said Ponti: "My marriage to Sophia, following a divorce with my former wife's full consent, was the only door open to me to join my life to Sophia...
...take anyone who wants to get out," promised Carmelo. And for eight years he did. A good thousand men and women-Yugoslavs or Italians caught on the wrong side by the map makers-owe him their freedom. To fugitives who protested fearfully when he picked up others en route, he replied, "As many as we are, we all go, or nobody goes." To those who tried to pay him (the standard border-running price is $160), Carmelo laughed and said softly, "You'll need it later. Come on, let's go." Once, in the troop-infested area around...
...even know what I own, so that no judgment of mine can ever be influenced by any fancied advantage I could get out of my relatively modest holdings . . . The only reports I have from private investments are at the end of the year; reports as to what I owe in taxes, and that...
...Dallas. At length Leona turned in her crown (to Charlotte Sheffield, Miss Utah) and confessed that she had done it all because "we desperately needed money to buy clothes and shoes for our two small children [aged 3 and 2]. My husband makes only $300 a month, and we owe so many bills." Then that story, too, got caught in the wringer...
...Chinese people?" To the last question, Dulles' answer: yes. "Communism is repugnant to the Chinese people. They are above all individualists. We can confidently assume that international Communism's rule of strict conformity is, in China as elsewhere, a passing and not a perpetual phase. We owe it to ourselves, our allies and the Chinese people to do all that we can to contribute to that passing. If we believed that this passing would be promoted by trade and cultural relations, we would have such relations...